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AI surveys have often underestimated the pace of AI progress; a survey from around 2022 reportedly forecast that already-realized developments would take about ten years.

Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“they have almost always been too pessimistic from a point of view of how fast AI will advance. So like I think the 2022 survey,”
“they actually said the things that had already happened would take like 10 years to happen.”
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